weanling

noun

wean·​ling ˈwēn-liŋ 

: a child or animal newly weaned

weanling adjective

Examples of weanling in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The striped dolphin was a female weanling (newly independent from its mother) that stranded freshly deceased on Hampton Beach. —Breanne Kovatch, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023

Hungry weanlings trailing after their full-figured mothers. —Joe Drape, New York Times, 4 May 2023

Along with his final price as a 2-year-old, Morello was auctioned twice previously – for $140,000 as a weanling at the 2019 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale and for $200,000 as a yearling at the 2020 Fasig-Tipton Selected Yearling Sale in Kentucky. —Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 18 Apr. 2022

Dory originally purchased Chase the Chaos for $10,000 as a weanling in 2019. —Larry Stumes, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Feb. 2023

The 10 American Pharoah weanlings sold last November brought an average price of $445,000. —Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 6 June 2018

Fueled in part by the fascination with American Pharoah’s offspring, the average price for the 10,343 weanlings, yearlings and 2-year-olds in training sold at auction last year jumped by more than 14 percent from 2016, to $72,823. —Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 6 June 2018

These weanling seals are fully recovered and ready to return to the wild! —Alana Levene, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2018

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1533, in the meaning defined above

Medical Definition

weanling

noun

wean·​ling ˈwēn-liŋ 

: a child or animal newly weaned

weanling adjective